Always Look On The Bright Side

[poliphilo]

I posted something really sour- about how you keep seeing the same old faces again and again on the telly. It stayed posted for about a minute- you may have even had time to read it- but then I deleted it. I don't want to become known for being sour.

I'm a crotchety old sod, more crotchety in real life than on line, but I'm trying hard to keep myself in check-  trying to play nice. It's a ghastly, old world, but we're all in it together and what's the point in adding to the negativity?

I've been reading David Foster Wallace. I hadn't heard of him before the suicide. I've read his piece on the Caribbean Cruise and his piece about 911. Here's a guy who found life so hideous he checked out prematurely, but he strove and struggled in his writing to be humane, witty, positive.  I respect that.

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[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

One of the people who seems to be all over the telly right now is Griff Rhys Jones. He's just done a programme on anger management- and now he's got a series coming up about the world's great cities. Another is Stephen Fry. He has a sitcom and a panel show and does all sorts of one-offs and cameos- and now he's fronting a major documentary series about the "real" America.

[nostoi.livejournal.com]

GRJ did the Hardy programme I watched the other week, and SF is fronting a programme about the Guthenburg printing press which I've downloaded but have yet to watch. I doubt it's their fault, and likewise the actors I keep coming across time and time again. It's a bit bloomin boring though, isn't it? Programme (and film) makers have a tendency to home in on who is popular then saturate our screens with these people till we're sick to death of them.

I was reading an interview with the director (I think) of the new Brideshead Revisited film who said that he had to cast Emma Thomson in the role of Lady Marchmain despite not thinking she was right for the part because the film's financiers wanted her. He also said he was only allowed to cast three unknowns for much the same reason.